As in I won't be going back to that website because they have too much advertising to be worth reading. The heterodyne comes about from the more ads you have the less you make so you have more ads and make even less until your VC dries up and blows away. It's also Clear Channel's death spiral.

FLMountainMan:What about that war where eleven Saudi Arabians, a Lebanese, an Egyptian, and two people from the UAE decided to fly planes into American buildings and America responded by attacking Iraq?

That was pretty strange.

True. Also, FTA: faulty telegraphic communications caused the War of 1812? Was it the telegraph's fault that it hadn't been invented yet?

The honey war between Iowa territory and Missouri. A settler cuts 5 bee trees in disputed area on what will be the border between the states. Honey being an expansive item back then. Militias were raised and tensions was high. Luckily cooler heads prevailed and the only thing killed was barrels of corn whiskey. Much later it was proven the Iowa man cut the trees in Missouri

keypusher:FLMountainMan: What about that war where eleven Saudi Arabians, a Lebanese, an Egyptian, and two people from the UAE decided to fly planes into American buildings and America responded by attacking Iraq?

That was pretty strange.

True. Also, FTA: faulty telegraphic communications caused the War of 1812? Was it the telegraph's fault that it hadn't been invented yet?

Telegraph was down from the mass coronal ejection causing a EMP burst over the US.

Caller: "...When I came back from the Australian-American war...I didn't get a heroes welcome...I didn't get a pack on the back from my friends and neighbours saying 'thanks for fighting for our freedom James!' After years of fighting in the trenches, I come back here and everyone's watching TV!!"

Lazlow: "Now..I..I..can you tell me what this Australian-American war was...I..I never really heard of it!"

Caller: "God, not another one! Have you read a history book lately son?? The Australian-American war the was the biggest war since the big one! I tell ya, I didn't do two tours and take boomerang shrapnel in my head to come back here, and have a bunch of hippies deny our history! Those Aussies are ruthless! They even wired kangaroos with explosives...come hopping in the camp and knock out ten guys!"

You mean the great Australian-American War in which we whupped the Australian's asses?

I was listing to a radio station once and Col. James P., called in to talk about how no one cares about the Australian-American War. He talked about how the Australians equipped boomerangs and kangaroos with explosives.

Though there was no conflict between military forces, occasionally civilian lumberjacks became violent if they spotted people on the wrong side of the border.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War

Almost did a paper on that for a class, but the professor wouldn't let me because it was "too obscure." He loved the idea, but he didn't think I'd be able to find enough sources in the available time (less than a week; it was a short paper). Turned out he was right, so I threw together an entirely different paper at the last minute.

/got an A anyway//had to rethink more papers due to lack of available source material